In the summer of 1994, RMS Titanic, Inc., with IFREMER, returned to the Titanic's wreck site and completed 18 dives. The expedition recovered over 700 artifacts including personal effects such as a boot (94/0249), assorted porcelain and glassware, binoculars (94/0229) and a 2-ton set of bollards (94/0240), which once secured the Titanic's mooring lines.  In addition, a 17-ton section of the Ship's hull (98/0001.A1), found lying on the seabed, was painstakingly measured by Nautile for retrieval at a later expedition. The artifacts recovered subsequently went on exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England where they were seen by over 720,000 people.

This was also the year that over 170 pieces of Titanic's coal, weighing approximately 2-tons, were recovered and added to the Collection.  This coal had spilled from the Ship when it broke apart to litter the debris field surrounding the wreck.  Given accession number 94/0036, pieces of this coal, authenticated by the Company as having come from the Titanic, are sold at the exhibitions to help defray the cost of artifact conservation.

Photos of this expedition are available by clicking on more details below.